Table 2.

Unadjusted risk of Absenteeism for those with and without co-morbid psychological distress compared to the reference group that had neither the indexed health condition nor co-morbid psychological distress, using negative binomial logistic regression; reporting Incidence Rate Ratios (IRR)

		Without co-morbid PD		With co-morbid PD
HEALTH CONDITION	Model n	%	IRR (95%CIs)	%	IRR (95%CIs)
Arthritis	64888	3.5	1.40** (1.32-1.49)	0.2	2.24** (1.73-2.92)
Asthma	65788	6.3	1.22** (1.17-1.28)	0.3	1.75** (1.43-2.14)
Back/neck pain	70579	29.6	1.22** (1.19-1.25)	1.5	2.02** (1.85-2.21)
Cancers	74514	3.1	1.27** (1.20-1.35)	0.14	2.36** (1.81-3.08)
COPD	71750	0.4	1.51** (1.27-1.79)	0.03	2.80* (1.55-4.92)
CVD	74002	0.8	1.17* (1.03-1.32)	0.06	2.14* (1.39-3.29)
Drug & Alcohol	72227	3.0	1.74** (1.30-2.32)	0.5	2.24** (1.47-3.44)
Diabetes	73853	2.0	1.18** (1.10-1.27)	0.12	1.60* (1.18-2.16)
Fatigue/sleep problems	74630	0.6	1.48** (1.29-1.69)	0.10	2.08** (1.51-2.87)
High Blood Pressure	71009	8.1	1.14** (1.10-1.19)	0.3	1.82** (1.52-2.18)
High Cholesterol	68637	5.7	1.10** (1.05-1.16)	0.2	1.87** (1.50-2.32)
Migraine/severe headache	70881	9.1	1.22** (1.17-1.26)	0.7	1.94** (1.71-2.20)
Obesity	71849	11.0	1.22** (1.18-1.27)	0.7	2.04** (1.79-2.32)
Workplace Injury	75031	7.0	1.43** (1.37-1.49)	0.5	2.66** (2.29-3.09)

*: p < 0.05; **: p < 0.001; † trend < 0.1